Improved buckle



. MA-RTiN HANE L INE,Y or HUNT LN Gm INDIANA.. `Letters Patent No. 87,563, lated March .9, 1869 5 antecilrtte February 27, 1869.

IMPROVED BUCKLE.

To all whom 'it may conce/rn: y Be it known that I, MARTIN HANELINE, of Huntington', in the county of Huntington, and State of Indiana, have invented-a new and improved Buckle; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable those skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

The present invention relates to a new and improved buckle, especially designed for use upon harness, which `buckle consists of a traine provided with two tongues,

aslwilbe hereinafter particularly described.

In the 'accompanyin g drawings- Figure 1 is a plan or top view of the buckle, show-l A diate cross-bar C, hereinabove referred to.

G, a strap, passing under the intermediate cross-bar O, with the tongue E resting upon such cross-bar passed through an aperture, a, in said strap, from whence this strap, passing over such tongue E to the other tongue'D, is interlocked with said tongue D, and passing under it, is, `by its end H, also fastened ovel: the tongue E, as plainly shown in the drawings, Iig. 2, this strap G,- in the present instance, being supposed to be the haines-strap of a harness.l

I, the trace-strap, buckled to the tongue D, and pass` ing therefrom in each direction under the end` crossbars of the buckle-frame. 'l

One, E, of the tongues hung to the buckle-trarne, as above described, is made of a fork-shape at its end, by which it is hung to the cross-bar of such frame; but\ in lieu of making it of a fork-shape, the other may be so formed, or the forked-shaped end maybe dispensed with in either case. f

I claim as new, 'and desire to secure by Letters PatentrIhe construction of the within-described'buckle,`the same consisting of the frameA, having two rigidlyconnected transverse bars, B O, on one of which are hinged the two tongues D E, so that one shall bear on one end of the fra-ine, and the other on the other bar, and both on the upper side of the frame, as herein represented and described.

MARTIN HANELINE. Witnesses:

T. L. LUCAS', Feuers- HANELINE. 

